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A look at what's going on in the field of user experience.
Florence Nightingale on vanity metrics
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The least useful numbers we take the most seriouslyFlorence Nightingale — image generated with aiPeople want numbers. Knowing what those numbers mean usually comes second to watching them move in the right direction. More users, more logins, more clicks. It’s remarkable how quickly a rising metric starts to feel like sound judgment.
But a metric that feels good isn’t the same as a metric that helps you decide anything.
Why soft skills will define design careers over the next two years
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Here’s what 21 design leaders told me is critical for their teams
Locksmith stickers are annoying, but kind of genius
, UX Collective - Medium
Locksmith stickers are annoying, illegal, and typographically messy. But by appearing where you least expect them — from letterboxes to…
Unmoderated UXR, software with integrity, training LLMs on your design system
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Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Let’s take a critical view of unmoderated user testing. What if there is potential value in the interaction between humans that adds that extra layer to research findings? What if we risk missing something important when introducing remote unmoderated testing? And what happens when people get paid quite a lot to do not too much?”
The illusion of unmoderated UX testing →By Sanna Rau
Gemini 3 for Web Design
, UX Planet - Medium
Gemini 3 is Google’s latest multimodal/agentic AI model. Previously, I showed how to use Gemini 3 for UI Design, and in this article, I want to show you how to make the most of this tool for web design.
If you want to create a quick prototype of a web page, you no longer need to use Figma for that. You can start in Gemini and provide the following instructions:
Gemini 3 For UI Design
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Gemini 3 is the latest state-of-the-art LLM from Google. It is not just an incremental update it’s a radical shift toward an agentic-first experience. The model is optimized for multimodality and long-horizon planning. In other words, it doesn’t just answer prompts better; it can think, plan, and act more autonomously across different modalities.
In this article, I want to show you 5 cases of using Gemini 3 for UI design tasks
Rake Weighting: How to Weight Survey Data with Multiple Variables
, MeasuringU
Having a representative sample is ideal when making inferences about your customer or user population. In practice, it can be difficult to recruit the right proportion of respondents, leaving your sample out of balance with the population.
One way to adjust for being off balance is to weight the data you collected to get the sample back into proportion with the population percentages (such as for variables like age, geographic region, or experience levels).
Creating UI Assets with ChatGPT
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ChatGPT is a versatile tool that can be used for all kinds of purposes. I’ve already demonstrated how to use it for UI design
UI Design with ChatGPT 5
UI Design with Midjourney
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Midjourney is a great AI imagery generator. The latest version (v7) is capable of producing decent-quality visual output. A lot of articles and videos show how Midjourney can generate different kinds of visuals, but a few demonstrate UI design output.
In this article, I want to share a prompt template that you can use to generate UI design with Midjourney, tips & tricks on how to achieve better results with the tool, and examples of the output generated by the tool.
What Metrics Has MeasuringU Created?
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At MeasuringU®, we don’t just use UX metrics—we create them.
But what have we created, and what have we just used or extended?
